Kills storm memory? Try erasing, and then reinstalling. On top of that I tell people this all the time: Don't watch your memory. Its like a drug, you get addicted and can't stop doing it. I have stopped looking at my memory, have a decent amount of apps and hardly EVER do a battery pull and my phone works fine.
the newest version does not cause a mem leak. Have you proven that this is the source of the leak? on .323 I barely lose memory and do a batt pull every 3-4 days.